Author: Arshad Syed
Date: 05:36:01 12/24/02
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On December 24, 2002 at 00:05:52, Russell Reagan wrote: >"Speed" really has almost nothing to do with how well a chess program performs, >unless that speed difference is something like Deep Blue compared to a 200 MHz >machine. Even if you made the program twice as fast with assembly, that doesn't >even come out to an extra ply of search, and now you've practically handcuffed >yourself to a specific processor family, and reduced flexibility to try new >ideas. > >Russell If the program was twice as fast in assembly wouldn't that translate to an additional 100K (approx.) nodes evaluated per sec, given that avg. NPS is ~100K? Regards, Arshad
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